good and that the results are satisfactory, especially when a large proportion of these students go out as teachers. Without training in the subjects known as the intellectual studies they will be intelligent in a way, but they can hardly appreciate the ordinary writing of Dr. Harris or Dr. Taylor or any of our theologians or great writers who contribute so freely to magazines and educational periodicals. Certainly ethics and psychology should be taught to the senior class in the high school, and political economy also, for in all these some things are settled, and these as first principles may be taught. In spite of the blundering way in which they are often learned and taught, they are valuable. But the committee says: "Then teach these things, but do not do it when anybody is looking. Teach them as something else. Let your ethics come in as part of your algebra, and your psychology as part of your geography, and your political economy as part of your history." Cicero long ago said that all the studies which pertain to culture have between themselves a certain relationship, but it does not follow from that that you can teach psychology from history very well or ethics from geography. It reminds one of the modern furnishing of our houses, where everything is, as it were, something else. Your ottoman is a coal-hod and your divan may be an ice-chest. A piano tuner said the other day he was afraid to sit down to tune a piano for fear a folding bed would fly out on him. So they would have these subjects taught under a different name when scholars are not aware that they are learning them. If you are to teach these studies, teach them by their true name; and though we can not do university work, yet I believe it is better to teach something of these than to send our scholars out with an idea that there is nothing in this universe except that which can be weighed and measured. 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Harper's Magazine, May, 1894, vol. 88, p. 963. WELLS, WILLIAM. Modern language work. University of the State of New YorkRegents' Bulletin, No. 28, July, 1894, p. 332. Albany, 1894. 12°. WHEELER, BENJ. I. Bearings of the committee's report on the future significance of the baccalaureate degree. University of the State of New York-Regents' Bulletin, No. 28, July, 1894, p. 319. Albany, 1894. 120. WILCOX, M. A. The programmes of the committee of ten. Education, January, 1895, vol. 15, p. 257. WINSHIP, A. E. The report of the committee of ten. Journal of Education (New Eng. and Nat.), July 26, 1894, vol. 40, p. 93. CHAPTER III. THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. CONTENTS: I.-Historical sketch, by Zalmon Richards, of Washington, D. C. II.Organization and functions of the Association, by William T. Harris, LL. D. III.— Constitution of the Association. IV.-Constitution of the National Council of Education. V.-List of meetings, officers, and annual membership from each State. VI. Catalogue of papers and addresses since first organization, subject classification. VII.-Same, author classification. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. By ZALMON RICHARDS, Washington, D. C. The present name of this association was assumed in 1870, at the annual meeting held in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. Previous to that date it bore the name of "The National Teachers' Association." This latter name was assumed as its first organization in Philadelphia, August 26, 1857. This association has a legitimate origin. It is not the result of any faction, accident, or antagonism. Neither ambition nor rivalry furnished any incentives for its formation, for it was the natural outgrowth from the spirit of the times and the demands of the period. It is true that at the time of its origin there were not less than twenty-three State educational associations in this country, the first of which was organized in the State of New York in 1845. With pleasure we also speak of the "American Institute of Instruction," organized in 1830, which is still doing efficient and highly commendable work in its New England field. The next year after, 1831, "The Western College of Teachers" was organized in Ohio. This western association should be specially commended and honored for the evolutionary influence which it exerted not only upon the teaching fraternity of Ohio, but upon the teachers of many other States. So far as we know now, the first educational association in this country was organized in Middletown, Conn., under the name of "The Middlesex County Association for the Improvement of Common Schools." (See note, "Barnard's Journal of Education," Vol. II, p. 19.) We would also especially refer to "The American Association for the Advancement of Education," which was the result of a "Convention of the Friends of Common Schools and of Universal Education," held in Philadelphia in December, 1849, and which completed its organization in 1850. Its prominent original movers and officers for 1819 were Hon. Horace Mann, president; Joseph Henry, John Griscom, Samuel Lewis, Dr. Alonzo Potter, Greer B. Duncan, vice-presidents; Charles Northend, P. Pemberton Morris, Solomon Jenner, secretaries. The business committee were Henry Barnard, John S. Hart, Nathan Bishop, H. H. Barney, and Thomas H. Benton, jr. These are all venerable names of noble men, whose influence in the cause of education, public and private, will never cease to be felt both in our own and in other countries. The influence of all these associations was felt more or less by the first movers in the organization of the National Teachers' Association, but the most direct influence came from the American Institute of Instruction, the New York Teachers' Associa tion, and the American Association for the Advancement of Education. Of the eleven original founders of the National Teachers' Association, six of whom are now living, three, viz, T. W. Valentine, the first to suggest its organization, and at the Read before the National Educational Association at the meeting held in Toronto, Canada, 1891. |